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Serious A226 crash in Gravesham on 23 December 1992 at 05:45 involving a Toyota Carina

A Toyota Carina and a Honda motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A226 in Gravesham at 05:45 on Wednesday 23 December 1992. The 35-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Dec 1992
Wednesday, 05:45
Vehicles
2
Toyota Carina and Honda
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41142, longitude 0.45776, in the ME3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Higham.

Map of where the crash happened in Gravesham

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1992460216989
Council area
Gravesham
Police force
Kent

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
226
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
226

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Frost or ice

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 January 1994.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Toyota Carina

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    50 years
    Engine capacity
    1,587 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

  • Vehicle 2: Honda

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    35 years
    Engine capacity
    90 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    12 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Honda)

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 1992460216989 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Gravesham road accident statistics for 1992.